Name: Vapor
Duration: P00H03M11S
Description: Sometimes you feel like vapor, evaporating, coming undone. This is a very different style song for me, but I went with the somber feeling of the poem. This song also represents more firsts (and probably lasts) for Iambic Beats: including a prayer in a song, and singing opera in a song. I'll save the arias for the theater. :)

Vapor

from Phase/Shift by Iambic Beats

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Sometimes you feel like vapor, evaporating, coming undone. This is a very different style song for me, but I went with the somber feeling of the poem. This song also represents more firsts (and probably lasts) for Iambic Beats: including a prayer in a song, and singing opera in a song. I'll save the arias for the theater. :)

lyrics

The sweet release
Of a quiet death,
The solace that comes
With an unbecoming

I look up
Nose to sky
And down
Chin to earth

And I see nothing
In the everything

Oh, to be loved
In a cage
And kept by silent rosebud promises
Lips on stems

That lie
Lie, lie
Foils and fouls
And gilded skeleton keys

Be my October like you once were
Haunt me as you did
When nights were long
And burned blue, every one

The kettle hisses now
Her sweet release
Her quiet death

The water screams
with its own unbecoming

credits

from Phase/Shift, released August 21, 2021
Some friends just say "absolutely" when, out of nowhere, you ask them to read and record a random prayer, without any sort of explanation. Many thanks to Mark H. Fitzpatrick (@mhfitzpatrick on Twitter) for being that kind of friend.

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Iambic Beats Los Angeles, California

We have so many titles. A few of mine are: scientist, poet, writer, singer, mom. I like to think I live at the intersection of music and words and always asking questions. A goddamn lovely place to be.